Buzz Lightyear: "You are a strange sad little cat."

..But that's one of the reasons you like me so much. :з

ahhahah thats fantastic! just started playing it again after years since they released it to steam. and yes that pretty damn accurate for the game play :P You forgot one thing. squad mates shooting each other trying to take out the Xenos heheheh

I didn't know where to fit that. XD

Also, is it wrong that I find Chryssalids oddly cute? :B

LOL nah Chryssalids are heheheh there always smiling too !

"HUUUUUUUUGZ~"

Correct, one of the best games evah!

*Siegfried Nox is under alien control*

*uses stun rod on Siegfried*

*keels over, dropping a primed proximity grenade; FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-*

oh god no! *Explodes into fireball surviving with 1 hp* * gets touched by Chryssalid becomes drooling zombie*

Panics

*walks slowly twords ragstart*

*turns dark*
*walks outside screen*

*CannonFodder has gone berserk*

Me: FFuuuuuu-

*DeadMeat has died from critical wounds*

Me: "..I kinda saw that coming."

*Siegfried Nox is under alien control. Again.*

Me: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!"

You forgot ShirtRookie taking a Blaster Bomb at ground zero and surviving, completely unharmed!

...what? It can happen. I've had one officer soak half a dozen heavy plasma bolts without taking so much as one point of damage. No hacks, nothin'!

..I'll have to do a second one, aren't I?.. :B

Suddenly, TENTACULATS!

Fhtagn.

And then there were psimorphs.

Chryssies will still be the best. And they also can be utterly foiled by hovering about two metres above the ground. :B

yep :P

And people wondered why I got excited when I saw it on sale on steam a while ago ;p

Yep. :B

Was it 94 or sum shit like dat and it hit me like an atom-bomb.
The starting animation was the coolest ever too XD

I guess by now if i saw it, it would seem a bit seedy. Or then not!! *hums the theme*
*Found Alien Base* *Found Alien Origins*

Make them laser pistols for fun and profit. Plasma makes da illa alien spasma *beatboxes the tune*

It was somewhat creepy when say, steve would panic. Walk to a barn and then flip his shit and go under alien control.
When you go see Steve you're all like 'Why steve! What are you doing alone in this field?!'

*hiss* *boo* *hiss*

Then later the Chrysalis hatchin'
*shows how with hands*

Is it bad that I actually liked Chrysalis missions? That meant that I just burned a city to the ground though..

I also enjoyed giving Ensign Ricky with the low psi ratings a pistol and a medkit in case he was mind controlled. I always assumed my guys were giggling at the bullets bouncing off of their armor

Ahhhh.. Good times. :B

OH GOD IT BURNS

It bUrNS aND sTinGs. ○_O

I recently read the Giant in the Playground LP of the game by Chiasaur.
Alex Knight took out a Chrysalid with a bayonet.
That particular playthrough for the most part had the characters as gods among men - they had a natural 100 psi, and several 90+, among the first two cohorts.

I have one such nigh-invulnerable guy. Sadly, he had his arm blown off by a heavy plasma shot during an assault on a downed Muton scout ship. That sent him to hospital for a month. :\

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/show.....;postcount=759

This was their first snakeman terror mission. They end up viewing reapers as herbivores, and every other type of terror creature as tools.

I have Captain Sanger Zonvolt on my second team. Makes me wish XCOM had decent melee weapons. :B

Faving this a lot.

ALSO WHO BOUGHT ALL THE WORTHLESS AP BULLETS?

I DIDN'T KNOW THEY DO NOTHING! DX

Thanks. :>

I laugh because it is all true, all of it. Thank £&%£ for flying suits.

And then, in Terror from the Deep, Tentaculats. :|

Weirdly, in my current game (written up on the clockwork mansion), I have suffered no casualties to Terror units.
Then again, I have had something like three times the Floater terror missions as any other type...
And it really helps when it turns out your crew includes several 90+ psi strength troops.

And I think you missed something. Blaster Bombs. Usually useless on the part of the Aliens, but when they do it properly you WILL lose half the squad.

And, from last time I commented, there is a melee weapon in XCOM. Use the item stack glitch on a Laser rifle and a Stun Rod. It basically gives it a (lethal) bayonet. It's got different TU costs, does lethal damage rather than stun...
I'm too scared to do it (and I have Heavy Plasmas now anyway), but there you go.

Dang. I'll need to try out the "bayonet" glitch, I read about it myself somewhere. :B

I just started replaying the original, as I hear they are redoing it at the end of the year with the new graphics. :)

If they truly make a remake of the original, I will ascend to Valhalla with happiness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZdanb02280

When I saw this, I was like, no way.... :) Then I had a nerd gasm.

yeah......thats about sums up X-COM

Not quite. I omitted Blaster Launchers. :B

ugh......the blaster launcher....70% of my X-COM opritives died because of those

Hey Siegfried, you played the remake of it yet?

I say yet... because, though it's been out merely a week, I have to say... it's IMPRESSIVE!

I grew up with X-Com and I shared Spoony's cry of BETRAYAL when I saw what was originally planned.

But the remake? The REAL one? Turn-based strategy brought to the new era ^_^

I will definitely check it out once I make my computer not suck.

I think, actually, even Sectoids are lethal first when you encounter them. Great tribute!

I LOLed when in the new game, there is one video of the testing of the Laser Rifle - and the target board has the old 1993 Sectoid painted on it.

Well, it is not so much that the Sectoids are lethal, rather it is that early on your own troops are hilariously bad. :p

Oh yeah. Especially the lack of armor... But the sectoids can aim well, too - especially later when they come with Plasma cannons.

I think Microprose also did Master of Orion, but I'm not sure. I just know I'm a life-long MOO fan

I really want to be one of the xcom heavies. Because I made one od my heavies have both the nanofiber vest and the carapice armor. I called her "the beast"